Title
Evaluating Rehabilitation Progress Using Motion Features Identified by Machine Learning
Abstract
Evaluating progress throughout a patient's rehabilitation episode is critical for determining the effectiveness of the selected treatments and is an essential ingredient in personalised and evidence-based rehabilitation practice. The evaluation process is complex due to the inherently large human variations in motor recovery and the limitations of commonly used clinical measurement tools. Information recorded during a robot-assisted rehabilitation process can provide an effective means to continuously quantitatively assess movement performance and rehabilitation progress. However, selecting appropriate motion features for rehabilitation evaluation has always been challenging. This paper exploits unsupervised feature learning techniques to reduce the complexity of building the evaluation model of patients’ progress. A new feature learning technique is developed to select the most significant features from a large amount of kinematic features measured from robotics, providing clinically useful information to health practitioners with reduction of modeling complexity. A novel indicator that uses monotonicity and trendability is proposed to evaluate kinematic features. The data used to develop the feature selection technique consist of kinematic data from robot-aided rehabilitation for a population of stroke patients. The selected kinematic features allow for human variations across a population of patients as well as over the sequence of rehabilitation sessions. The study is based on data records pertaining to 41 stroke patients using three different robot assisted exercises for upper limb rehabilitation. Consistent with the literature, the results indicate that features based on movement smoothness are the best measures among 17 kinematic features suitable to evaluate rehabilitation progress.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TBME.2020.3036095
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Biomechanical Phenomena,Humans,Machine Learning,Recovery of Function,Robotics,Stroke,Stroke Rehabilitation,Upper Extremity
Journal
68
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0018-9294
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Lu116421.93
Ying Tan273786.47
Marlena Klaic331.16
Mary P. Galea411.04
Fary Khan510.70
Annie Oliver610.37
Iven Mareels7884129.28
Denny Oetomo810031.30
Erying Zhao910.37